Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, June 7, 1924, Page 2

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Yearns For Authority The thing that Senator LaFollette is turn- ing over in his mind these days, and especially at times when he is having one of his sick spells, which, by the way are nothing more or less than brief rest cures for himself and re- ceptions to radicals that think along his same line, is not fully appreciated throughout the country. If you should tell the first five persons you meet that a hopeless minority is planning to sieze control of the government in Russia they will accept it as true and as the usual thing in that country. Then tell the same persons that such a minority, led by a radical demagogue, who at the same time professes to be the supreme champion of, popular government, is planning the same thing in the United States, and they Yet right under everybody's nose that is exactly what La Follette and his radical outfit are attempt- ing to do. There have been bigger fool projects than this planned, and more preposterous enterprises launched. The whole attitude of the LaFallette movement for a third party and the threats al- ready issued to the existing parties point to- ward just such designs. Given a determined leader like La Follette, followed by all the rad- ical and destructive elements of the country, and they may attempt almost any program that enter their minds. The histories of the world and of our own country have many pages devoted to uprisings led by men posing as public benefactors, but whose real object was the power to dictate and order. La Fol- lette is of the type. He is a demagogue and radical of high development, with courage and brains. He is drunk with the power his own state followers have conferred upon him. He is obsessed to gain a larger world to rule. He ewill try it with strategy and without bloodshed, but he is thirsty for power. His soul yearns to be the supreme king. He will fail, of course, but he will try it. See if he don’t. His Labor of Love Mr. Frank A. Vanderlip, a certain rich man of fragrant memory and foolish action has turned author. He has written a book. The primary object is to save the country. He has of late become so alarmed at the numerous ills that beset the land of the free and the home of the brave that he is impelled to take his mighty pen in hand and stay the avalanche which threatens. Mr. Vanderlip is certain that the president is burdened with more and greater responsi- bilities than any one man can sustain, let alone execute, He believes that “government by investigation” is a bad thing and ought to be abolished, at the same time omitting to r- mark concerning his own activity in that direc- tion by paying the salaries of discredited sleuths to drag in disreputable witnesses to testify against honest men. The fact is that the situation is so serious that not even congress or the president knows what steps ought to be taken, And as for the mere public, it cannot comprehend the magni- tude of its own government. It would take up the entire time of the average man if, as a patriotic citizen he attempted to keep himself thoroughly informed of the affairs of his gov- ernmen, so Mr. Vanderlip has undertaken the task for him in his book, The Honorable Ghastly B. Means was granted ® vacation by the Wheeler slum committee the other day to enable him to journey to New York to appear for trial before a federal court in which institution he had been indicted on a number of counts in transactions expressly for. bidden by statutes. The distinguished Mr. Means was under bond of $15,000 is why he made: the call upon the judge. Followers of lurid literature will readily re- call that Mr. Means is a former department of justice agent, spy, and retailer of page after page of unsubstantiated romance for the bene- fit of anti-administration senators presiding over certain scandal clubs at the nation’s cap- ital, Mr, Means through his counsel asked delay of trial, but ard bolled court peremptorily set the trial for Friday, June 18, the luckiest day he found on his calendar, and increased the bail to $25,000 with twenty-four hours to raise it. jeography makes a whole lot of difference in Mr. Means’ case. In Washington he was a vaude- ville hero. In New York where he is known and therefore not highly esteemed he is treated as the criminal he is. ‘ Mahomet Approachs the Mountain The free-trader can seldom go very far in his argunent before he finds himself strengthening the position of the protectionists. There was an illustration of this re tly in England while Lord sJeverhulme was arguing on behalf of a free frade policy for Great Britain. Lord Lever hulme is a manufacturer and admitted that his company has factories in several other countries, S| That is just what his been done in the An observing opponent supplied the im- rtant information that the countries in which rd Leverhulme has his foreign factories are all protectionist nations. significance of this is clear. Lord Lever- hulme’s concern desired to market its product in other countries but was shut out by the pro- tective tariff. In order to market the product the company had to establigh a factory in the protected country. The result of that is also clear. Establishment of the factory in the pro- tected country meant employment of labor in that country, p e of raw materials large- ly if not entirely in that country, and payment of taxes in that country, Under free trade in the United States, the British lord’s establishment could manufacture its product in Great Britain, ship it to the Unit- ed States, for instance, and gell it here, taking the money back to England. That would mean the employment of British labor, the purchase of raw materials in Britain or its dependencies, and ae payment of taxes to the British goyern- ment, . In the course of his argument, Lord Lever: hulme said that a protectionist country can ex- port protected commodities only if it is able to build up an industry to such a quantity pro- duction as to enable it thereby to cut the nited States, particularly in the manufacture of tin- plate. We used to import our tin plate, mostly from Wales. The McKinley tariff of 1890 put a 225) duty on tin. The result was the establishment of many tin plate mills-in the United States and the building up of such a large industry that our own market was not only supplied at re- duced prices but also the surplus waa marketed abroad, Of course some people will immediately say that if we can sell part of the products abroad, there is no need for protection. The answer is supplied by Lord Leverhulme an advocate of free trade. It is the building up of the industry to a quantity basis that enables the American manufacturer to reduce hig cost per unit, thus permitting him to sell his surplus abroad. The protective tariff gives him the assurance under which he builds his factory and keeps BP his in- vestment. The export is only a relatively small part of the total production. But even the sur- plus sold abroad gives employment to Amer- ican labor and brings in some money to add to the wage payments all of which would other. wise go to workers abroad. Lord Leverhulme, though an advocate of free trade, strengthens the confidence of Americans in the soundness of our own policy of protec: tion. ~ Doing His Best President Coolidge, by signing the tax mea- sure, has kept his promise, to the extent of his ability, to reduce taxes, more especially to the men and women who earn but little. His action means that congress has granted the president’s demand that a flat reduction of twenty-five per cent be given for 1923. This is indeed a victory for the people and for Calvin Coolidge. It means that the interests of the man or woman, no mat- ter whether on the farm or in the city, have been safeguarded by the president—it means that the head of the nation has kept his word to the citi- zens of the land—it means that congress has at last realized that the people stand solidly be- hind the president in his fight for a reduction of taxes. It is true that the measure just passed is not exactly what the president desired. Ife want- ed a bill that would mean an even greater reduc- tion of taxes. There is no doubt that at the next session of congress the president will insist that the tax bill be revised so as to give even further relief, and by that time the obstructionists in congress will, no doubt, have been informe‘ in emphatic terms by their constituents to do as the president desires. What's Wrong? What has come over the spirit of the dreams of the congressional investigators, when the members politely decline to hear a witness who claimed the right to testify that attempts had been made to induce him to slander President Coolidge, and to put in allegations about liquor furnished by Senator Wheeler to Roxie Stin- son. As there did not appear to be any anti-admin- istration political powder in something that might be in favor of the president and tend to east doubt on some of the testimony of the for- mer spies, bandits, horse-thieves, ladies of ques- tionable virtue, thieves, thugs, grafters and gen- eral disreputables and undesirables, it was not desired. Time to Retrace Steps The quality of public servants good govern- ment needs is not secured by pgimary elections, Popular election of senators not only gives ws second-rate men too often, but also traverses the design of the fathers for the upper house of congress. They contemplated a senate com posed of representatives of the states of the union, to be chosen, therefore, by the legisla tures of the states. That plan worked well for upwards of a hundred years, giving the nation the services of unusual men whereas, since pop- ular election came in the senate has not been and is not now a body of able men. Moreover, the permission to the federal gov- ernment to levy direct taxes is scarcely justify- ing itself. The fathers in their wisdom expressly denied direct taxes to the federal government. Congress has not used the new permission over well, has been notably niore extravagant. The politicians in congress have envisaged the Unit- ed States as a huge fortunatus purse, to be drawn on for their fancies and fads. When con- gress had to hunt a bit for money had to rely on indirect taxation, they were not so flippant about strewing the incomes of the American people around, nor so ready to slap taxes on this and that of the people's activities, The cure for democracy’s ills is more demo- cracy—that wag the slogan in tho first years of this century. By practical experience it is proved to be pretty eek bunk, In the first place what the founding fathers designed for posterity was not a democratic but a republican government, And if our people cannot successfully work a republic, the fault lies in their own political in- competence and not in the republican form, since a republic is an historic practicability and was such here with us, until we subjected ourselves to a flood of alienism. We have impaired the republic, but we find ourselves unimproved by the “more democracy” we have got. No pase democracy ever worked practically nor will ours, The farther we go along that road, the greater trouble we shall have, are having in fact already, We should retrace our steps, Back to the orig. inal design of the republic, to the constitution of the fathers—that is the way for us, if we are wise and patriotic, , rice, | P Uncommercialized Patriots Anonymous We are the dead who sleep in France; For us are no “adjusted compensations,” Nor sycophantical political dance; For we are dead. © 2 iE We cannot coin our spilled blood, Nor commercialize our sacrifice; For us is not the golden flood; For we aredead, — Pe We cannot frighten {tical bunril With millions of patriotic votes : To purchase ug with public monies; For we are dead, * ‘We are the dead who slp in France; Our souls-are clean, th: God. for that; Better that we lost in that Great Chance And sleep unsoiled in the soil of France. Riverton, Wyo. Compulsory Salute Representative Bloom of New York, is sensi- tive in matters of patriotism. He took art in the celebrations at the capital attendant eet Seoree Day. Apparently he found the public somewhat lax about saluting the. flag when it passed in the parade. There was only one conclusion: The public is not patriotic. The public ought to be pete, There ought to a law to make people salute the flag. When aecple are threatened with a jail sentence they will salute the flag. When they salute the flag they will be patriotic. Then all will be well with the country and Representative Bloom can se! his mind to work thinking up another law. Somehow our idea of patriotimn differs from that of Mr. Bloom. We had imagined it to be something of a epiritual emotion, voluntary and spontaneous. And the display of such an eniotion does not always find an outlet in rais- ing a stiff arm to a hat brim. There are times in a long parade when the flags are too many and the business of a salute becomes monoton- ous. And when patriotism becomes monotonous it ceases to be patriotism. There are many in- stances of real patriots running away from parades for the very reason that they are afraid of appearing either unpatriotic or ridiculous. Mr. Bloom as a congressman, has so many opportunities to appear patriotic—opportunities which most politicians overlook—that it seems unfortunate that he should waste his time over what after all is merely the superficial mani- festation of it. A Modern Miracle Any one who does not believe in miracles should study the charts and figures published by the National Automobile Chamber of Com- merce. Nothing in the “Arabian Nights” is half so wonderful or so incredible as these cold facts. The number of automobiles manufactured in 1923 was 4,086,997. The total number registered in the United States was 15,092,177. Huge figures and perhaps familiar ones, but none the less amazing. Statisticians and economists have become ac- customed to take 1913 as the “standard” year, the “normal” year, the basis of comparison, the year by whiclr the abnormalities of our time are to be indicated and measured. But to measure normality in automobile production that year would be pitifully futile. In 1913 just. 485,000 cars were built. In 1903, to go back another dec- ade ,just 11,000 cars were built. In those fine old normal days of 1918 there were already 1,258,062 cars registered in the United States, This was twice as many as the number two years before that. Bankers were al- ready issuing warnings of extravagance. Statis- ticlans were already talking solemnly of the “sat- uration point,” beyond which no cars could be sold. They have been talking about it every year since then. Were it not for the past history of the automo- bile trade one would be tempted to make the con- servative comment that things cannot go on in- definitely at this rate. A fifty per cent increase this year oyer 1923 would mean more than 6,000,- 000 cars. With more than 15,000,000 cars already in the country and only 25,000,000 families to own them, there is already more than one car for every two families, The ratio of cars to families long ago passed the old “saturation points” fixed by statisti- cians. But satisticians never despair. Many of them are busy now calculating that there are at least 5,000,000 families who cannot own a car by any stretch of the imagination. The most op- timistic statisticians figure ultimately on one car to every family. That sounds excessive, even impossible. But in this connection there is an interesting fact. In California the number of cars is already one for every three persons, or more than one for every family. Repudiating Dr. Butler At the recent general conference of the Meth- odist Episcopal church at Springfield, Mass., resolutions were adopted condemning the utter- ances of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Colum- bia university. The resolutions were presented by the Rey. George R. Grose, later elected a bishop. The resolutions follow: “Whereas, in the utterance of Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president. of Columbia univer. sity, before the recent meeting of the Missouri Society in New York City declaring his opposi- tion to the National Prohibition amendment, he spoke not merely as an individual citizen, but as the official representative of a great university, “Whe: he stigmatized. the moral efforts of ministers and churches in behalf of the en- forcement of a national constitutional amend- ment, “Whereas, the sentiment expressed by Mr. But- ler does not represent the prevailing senti- ment either of the American college and uni- versity presidents and faculties, or the hundreds of thousands of students: “Therefore, Be it Resolved, “That the presidents of the colleges and uni- versities of the Methodist Episcopal church in the name of more than thirty institutions of higher learning, record our emphatic protest against the utterance of President Butler as be- ing contrary both to the predominant conviction and to the prevailing practice of the overwhelm. ing majority of American colleges and univer. sities. “Further, Be It Resolved, “That we note with gratification the staunch and courageous support of the national prohibi- tion law by venerable president emeritus of Har. vard university, by the presidents of Yale, Prince. ton and Chicago universities, and the heads of great state universities of the middle west, not ably of tho state universities of Ohio and Tili nois, President Brooks of Missouri, and Presi dent Burton of Michigan, this general confer. ence commends all higher institutions of learn: ing in their avowed loyalty to a regularly en- acted national Jaw, and calls.upon the colleges ‘¢| Charter passed into the ha! and universities to lead in public opin- ia athe ttiplons endsoatee a orate OF pe ee in adopting th gene! ference 6 TesO- lution directed that there bé included in it a sentence to the effect that the president of the University of Missouri was ptesent at the time the utterance. was made and announced his pro- test to the same, : pn eS es >.> Earlier Scandals Ne By ELDEN SMALL. Recent investigations -by cc t leged official scandals ‘recall two of ‘most notable affairs of somewhat 5: the history of the cas Renta were threatened in Mobilier” exposures in the ’70s, and for a time it looked as though a “cluster of popular idols were doomed to the refuse;heap. | Something of a like nature accompanied the “Star Route” cases in the ’80s. “ In each instance, however, after a deluge of highly sensational and start- Ring, exponnres,’ the trials came to practically nothing. Building of the Union Pacific railroad was the center. of the Credit Mobilier affair. The Oredit Mobilier of America was a corporation with a Pennsylvania charter dated in 1850, nominally to do a banking business. The cor- poration laws were loose, however, and the inds of railroad pro- moters in 1864. _ They used it to finance the building of the Union Pacific, and some of the resultant features resulted in a Congressional probe in 1872-3. When all the smoke had cleared away, two congressmen were censured Oakes Ames, Massachusetts and James Brooks, New York. . reputa' Letting of contracts for “star” mail routes (in- land postal routes other than those of rail-or steamboat class) with alleged gross irregular- ities therein aroused the government and the country in 1881-3. Despite all the revelations there were no convictions, Dramatic Suicide The act of committing hara-kiri, becanse of its dramatic charater, has always fascinated and mystified the west. A Japanese subject who.is re- ported to have thus sacrificed himself before the American embassy now translates it into international affairs, and it is well for Ameri- cans to acquaint themselves with the motives and significance, which in this instance have more than an impersonal nature. Hara-kiri had its origin in mediaeval militar- ism. The term is derived from the two words “hara” meaning “belly,” and “kiri” meaning “cut- ting.” It is accomplished by the victim driving a dagger into his left side below the waist, draw- ing it to the right and forcing it upward. This method of suicide was used by noblemen who preferred death to the humiliation of falling into the hands of the enemy. Later hara-kiri became obligatory as the ex- piation for treason toward the Mikado. It was customary for the Mikado to send a jeweled dagger to the suspected nobleman, who, after confessing his wrong, dispatched himself with due ceremony. As the Mikado in Japan is the symbol of religion as well as the head of the temporal state, hara-kiri therefore assumes something of a religious as well as a patriotic aspect. It is said that for centuries not less than vee actg of hara-kiri are committed annually in apan. bligatory hara-kiri was abolished in 1863, but the voluntary act continues as a popular custom no longer limited to the nobility. It has been employed by individauls in desperate straits, as evidence of loyalty toward a dead superior, notably following the death of the Mi- kado and as a protest against what was deemed a false national policy. lt now apparently finds new use as a protest against the foreign policy of another nation. However futile the act of hara-kiri may ap- pear to the western mind, it should not be for- gotten that in Japan it is regarded as symbolical of the highest religious and patriotic sacrifice. The instance just reported, therefore, indicates as little else would serve to do so well the pro- foundity of the reaction of certain groups in Japan to the new American immigration law. Lines and Angles By TED OSBORNE She ordered herself a love of a hat A dream of the heavens above. But when her husband saw: the bili, He promptly returned her love. _ HOPEFUL. Fortune Teller—* I can see a dark man in your future.” Politician—“Shuffle the cars again and see if you can see a dark horse.” ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY. Teacher—‘What three foods are most neces- sary in enabling the human race to keep in health?” Student—“Breakfast, luncheon and dinner.” AN INNOCENT BYSTANDER, Visitor (in county jail) —*What terrible crime has this man committed?” Warden—“He didn’t commit any crime at all. He was going down the street a few days a, and saw one man shoot another, and he is held as a material witness.” Visitor—“And where is the man who did the murder?” Warden—“Oh, he is out on bail.” A GO-GETTER. Bank President—“I am very sorry, but we can- not employ you, as we take only married men.” Applicant-—“I can fix that, all right. Have you a daughter?” The man who Runs all of the way To his girl’s house In order to be Prompt in keeping + A date is usually Rewarded by having Lots of time To get a good rest. UNCLE HOOK SAYS “Jest because most men are asses is no sign that women are assets.” ee Tommy-—“I told you not to make me take a bath, mamma. Look how plainly that hole in my stocking shows now,” Golfer (who has just administered an unmer- ciful beating to a fellow golfer) —“What is your handicap?” : The Fellow Golfer—“Honesty,” tenor in|’ with the “Credit | in [SETTING THE STYLES] | tabs NEW YORK— Women's bathing suits of silk jersey are mére and more in-cut, like the bathing suits PARIS—A great many petal are being used today in the skirts of summer dance frocks. Each tab has tiny ruffle around the edge of it and in the dance gives a swirling eftect. rs ——— PARIS— The newest today, in pastel shades of yellow, and pink to match the summer gowns, but a’so in purple, red and grange to contrast with them. LONDON—A new suede, difficult to distinguish from velvey makes up the toe and vamp of the new walking shoe. The rest of the shoe is kid. 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HOLMES Five Generations Of One Family In SiateCa pital CHEYENNE, Wyo., June 7.— Representatives of five genera- tions of one family are residents of Cheyenne. They are: HAR! ‘ARE John Hughes, 92, great-great- By grandfather; his daughter, Mrs. : John W. Benson, 69, great-grand- mother; her daughter, Mrs. Paul Phone 601 Milatzo, 46, grandmother; her daughter, Mrs. Clifford A. long, and Mrs. Long's two children, Paul Clifford, 80 months, and Violet Marie, 15 months. Great-grandfather Hughes ts in excellent ‘health. He enjoys nothing more than association with his daughter’s daughter's daughter's daughter, baby Marie. F Severe “rr pi Second and Wolcott FOR MOVING AND STORAGE Expert Crating Packing and Shipping pains ome PHONE 949 Good digestion restored by CHAMBERLAIN’S Natrona Transfer TABLETS Storage and Fuel Co. to sensitive THE NOLAYSEN LUMBER C0 RIG TIMBERS A SPECIALTY FARM MACHINERY, WAGONS Distributors of KONSET Three-Day Cementing Process for Oil Wells. 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